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Peruvian Dishes

Traditional dishes

Though typical of Peruvian cuisine, Arequipa’s adobo de chancho is quite different from the other adobos in the world. The arequipeño dish is a soupy pork stew, slow-simmered with chicha de jora, chilli, garlic, onions, oregano, and cumin.

Like Arroz con pato a la Chiclayana but the salad contains mashed avocado, carrot, mayonnaise, and other ingredients.

Arroz con pato a la Chiclayana

Tender duck meat cooked in black beer and cilantro.

Asado de picuro

Roasted meat of tasty Amazonian rodent.

Asado de venado

Roast deer meat with rice and green banana.

Asado de zamaño, cutpe and sakino

Roasted pork, Guinea pig, and peccary.

Avispa juane

Chopped pork, mixed with garlic and spices, bound with egg and flour; this is boiled and wrapped in achira leaves like a tamale.

Cabrito con frijoles

Stew of tender baby goat meat marinated in chicha de jora (fermented corn liquor whose origins date back to a time before the Incas) and vinegar accompanied with beans served with fried onions and garlic.

Caldo de bolas

Stuffed banana balls

Caldo de cabeza

Ram head soup prepared with mint and aji peppers.

Caldo de carachama

Thick soup made of carachama fish, with bananas and coriander (cilantro).

Chorípan is the clever hybrid name for one of the most popular South American sandwiches. It’s a sandwich of chorizo sausage on a crusty bread roll (chor for chorizo y pan for bread). Choripan is a popular street food that is best straight off the barbecue.

Stew made of tender baby goat meat marinated in chicha de jora (a fermented corn liquor whose origin dates back to the time before the Incas) and served with beans seasoned with fried onions and garlic.

Seco de chabelo

Beef jerky or dried beef stew with sweetened bananas.

Shambar

Soup made with wheat, pork rinds, smoked ham, assorted beans, and green onions. It is served with toasted corn (cancha) and is made only on Mondays.

The dessert is based around manjar blanco, the Peruvian name for what is known as dulce de leche elsewhere in South America, itself coming from blancmange, a dish from the Middle Ages. Blancmange came to Peru from Spain.

Ram head soup, rice, potatoes and dehydrated potatoes. It is garnished with mint and aji (hot pepper).

Yaku chupe or sopa verde

Soup made with potatoes, cheese, eggs, and aromatic herbs.

Desserts

Name

Image

Description

Alfajor de Penco

Alfeñiques Lambayecanos

Antecoco

Antepapaya

Arroz con leche

Arroz Zambito

Ayarampo (llipta)

Champú Lambayecano.

Champú Limeño

Chapanas

Chocotejas

Churros con manjarblanco

Cocadas

Crema Volteada

Dulce de Mamey

Dulce de papaya

Dulce o compota de Camote

Frejol Colado

Guargueros

Humitas Dulces

King Kong Lambayecano

Leche Asada

Machacado de Membrillo

Masapanes

Mazamorra de Cochino (tambien conocida como Mazamorra de maiz)

Mazamorra morada

Natillas Norteñas

Oquendos

Picarones

Picarones is a Peruvian dessert that originated in the colonial period. Its principal ingredients are squash and sweet potato. It is served in a doughnut form and covered with syrup, made from chancaca (solidified molasses).

The dessert is based around manjar blanco, the Peruvian name for what is known as dulce de leche elsewhere in South America, itself coming from blancmange, a dish from the Middle Ages. Blancmange came to Peru from Spain.

Other dishes in Peruvian cuisine

Chorípan is the clever hybrid name for one of the most popular South American sandwiches. It’s a sandwich of chorizo sausage on a crusty bread roll (chor for chorizo y pan for bread). Choripan is a popular street food that is best straight off the barbecue.

Salsa a la Huancaína (Huancaína sauce) is typically served over cold sliced potatoes in the well-known Peruvian dish Papas a la Huancaína. Made with aji amarillo peppers, it is a versatile sauce that goes with many dishes and flavours.

It’s up to you how hot this salsa will be: you can follow the recipe word for word, or make it milder, by substituting the Aji­ Amarillo with capsicums. Make it colourful so it is visually appealing and keep the onion crunchy to fully enjoy its texture and awaken all your senses